Justin Trudeau says after India, he will never travel anywhere again

It was that bad, huh

Justin Trudeau with family during his India visit in February 2018. AFP Photo / Narinder Nanu / Getty Images

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit to India in February this year went down as an unqualified disaster. Probably the only people for whom it was successful were news media and digital content producers–for whom it was the GIF that kept on giving.

The other person who has recently made fun of that visit, though, is Trudeau himself. At the annual Parliamentary Press Gallery Dinner, the PM poked fun at everyone from fake conservatives to Randeep Sarai, the MP who invited pro-Khalistan terrorist Jaspal Atwal to Trudeau’s Delhi reception. And then he spent some time reminding people of his desi misadventures.

Justin Trudeau’s epic India trip

Calling it a bandaid to be ripped off, he presented a slideshow titled India Trip 2018 🙁 . The presentation started off with an upside-down map of India, then a photo of him being welcomed not by one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s famous airport hugs, but by a junior minister for agriculture. Trudeau then proceeded to snark all over his own misguided sartorial choices that were more Punjabi dulha than political leader, and the fact that the press didn’t report on Infosys’ new investments in Canada because he was wearing a boring suit during that meeting.

After what he referred to as “the trip to end all trips, Trudeau quipped that he’s now told his team he’s “not going anywhere ever again”.

Trudeau ended his speech on a sobering note, making a mention of the journalists detained in Myanmar and the importance of a free press. He thanked journalists for giving him a hard time, and said he wouldn’t have it any other way. And he ended with another dig at himself, saying “Peoplekind is lucky to have you.”